Obama Goes Full Stalin: Tells Secret Court To Ignore Law He Signed 4 Hours Earlier, Extend Illegal

zeri hedge ^ | 6/9/15 | tyler durden

[Nachum]

Just when we thought the absurdity that marks every single day of Obama's reign could not possibly be surpassed, we learned that 4 hours (3 hours and 47 minutes to be precise) after the US president vowed to sign a new law banning bulk data collection by the NSA (named, for purely grotesque reasons, the "USA Freedom Act"), the Obama administration asked the secret Fisa surveillance court to ignore a federal court that found bulk surveillance illegal and to once again grant the National Security Agency the power to collect the phone records of millions of Americans for six months.

Or, as the Guardian's Spencer Ackerman, who spotted this glaring page out of Josef Stalin's playbook, summarized it:

Spencer Ackerman ✔ @attackerman

June 2, 6:03pm: Obama says he'll sign law banning bulk collection. June 2 9:50pm: DOJ asks secret court for 180 more days of bulk collection 10:13 AM - 8 Jun 2015

[Nachum]

Obama Goes Full Stalin: Tells Secret Court To Ignore Law He Signed 4 Hours Earlier, Extend Illegal NSA Surveillance

[Nachum]

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[kiryandil]

[lowbridge]

Bump

[blackdog]

Elections are coming. All those phone records tend to be quite useful to those in power.

[blackdog]

Did he use a pen with that disappearing ink to sign that bill into law?

[CharlesOConnell]

The Neo-Stalinist Media Megalopoly, the inescapable disinformational hegemony, has not been able to rescue Obama from his own image, from the camera's unfortunate propensity for showing us in the act of being ourselves. Hitler, who was close to a hypnotic svengali than Charlie Chaplin's Great Dictator or Spike Jones' "We Heil Right in Der Fuhrer's Face" and homicidal paranoic Uncle Joe Stalin, were primarily concerned with guaranteeing their public image. If Obama had to rely on the Media's treatment for his political survival, he wouldn't have made it past 2012.

[dp0622]

I wonder if that’s what happened to Gowdy. he said on fox once that he received death threats. i don’t know if it was that or i wonder if he was being framed at all because he seemed like such a bulldog but nothing ever came of the cases he was on.

[Nachum]

President Mister Mxyzptlk

 

[Birdsbane]

Great... Now for a “secret indictment”!

[VerySadAmerican]

Snowden’s biggest fear has come to pass. The people don’t care.

[Still Thinking]

named, for purely grotesque reasons, the "USA Freedom Act"

"USAFA" probably means "Fuck You" in Arabic.

[stockpirate]

Hello, he is a fascist dictator get used to it or do something to change it.

[Rodamala]

The U.S.A.F.R.E.E.D.O.M. Act has as much to do with Freedom as the U.S.A.P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act had to do with Patriots.

[RedHeeler]

Perhaps. Then again, who knows- what’s what? The near horizon seems quite full of promise.